Roaming in the Gloaming
Released on Roamin' in the Gloamin' (1912)
Covered by
(10 artists)
- Aliases
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Mr. Harry Lauder
Sir Harry Lauder
- Real name
- Henry Lauder
- Born
- August 4, 1870
- Died
- February 26, 1950
- IPI
- 00017397963
- Comments
- Scottish singer and comedian who became popular in both the English music hall and vaudevillian theatre tradition. He was perhaps best known for his long-standing hit "I Love a Lassie". By 1911, Lauder had become the highest-paid performer in the world, and was the first Scottish artist to sell a million records. He raised vast amounts of money for the war effort during World War I, for which he was subsequently knighted in 1919. He went into semi-retirement in the mid-1930s, but briefly emerged to entertain troops in World War II. By the late-1940s he was suffering from long periods of ill-health and died in Scotland in 1950.
